Mac not displaying external harddrive

keokismail

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I recently bought an external harddrive and its been working properly for about 2 weeks now. however, i accidently moved my iBook G4 and my external harddrive that was connected disconnected from the Mac. the error message of "please do not remove harddrive before ejecting..." popped up and since then it has not been working properly. i've read many articles and forums and nothing seems to be suited for my situation. it is a 400GB WD portable external harddrive and it plugs/runs by the USB port. the disk utility says when i try to repair disk:
"Disk Utility stopped repairing “My Passport” because the following error was encountered:

The underlying task reported failure on exit"

and i've checked the finder preferences and everything is what it is suppose to be. am i going to have to but that diskwarrior program in order to fix this? seems like there should be an easier, less expensive, way. any help would be much appreciated. thank you so much in advance.
 
Thank you for the reply Satcomer. I actually did this last night with no luck. My external harddrive is still not being recognized. Ugh!! Any other suggestions?
 
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